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Out of character: Homograph attacks explained

In April, Xudong Zheng, a security enthusiast based in New York, found a flaw in some modern browsers in the way they handle domain names. While Chrome, Firefox, and Opera already have security measures in place to cue users that they might be visiting a destination they thought was legitimate, at that time these browsers did not flag a fake domain name that used all Latin look-alike characters taken from another foreign language. An operating systems typeface of choice could make it easy or difficult for users to visually differentiate non-Latin characters from Latin ones.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2017/10/out-of-character-homograph-attacks-explained/

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